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Bitcoin
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Bitcoin is a decentralized digital currency that operates without a central authority, relying instead on a peer-to-peer network known as the Bitcoin network. It introduced the concept of a public, distributed ledger—the blockchain—to record transactions chronologically and immutably. Bitcoin’s design integrates cryptographic principles to secure transactions and control the creation of new units, often termed "mining." The currency was introduced to the world via a whitepaper published under the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto in 20…
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Blockchain Technology
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The foundational concepts underpinning blockchain can be traced back to the early 1990s. In 1991, Stuart Haber and W. Scott Stornetta described a cryptographically secured chain of blocks for time-stamping documents to prevent tampering [1] [2]. This work introduced the concept of chaining cryptographically hashed data structures together sequentially.
The realization of a fully operational, decentralized blockchain system occurred with the publication of the Bitcoin whitepaper in 2008 by the pseudonymous entity [Satoshi Nakamoto](/entri…